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This program will give you a taste of just how tough it is to be an air traffic controller, taking you from the easiest of tasks to major emergencies. The action can take place at either Heathrow, London or Schiphol, Amsterdam where you can take on seven exercises of increasing difficulty to land aircraft safely and quickly.

The display is a radar scan of the area surrounding the airport with a runway approach path down which you must guide the letter-coded aircraft, marked with their altitude and a short trail behind them.

You have to handle all sizes of craft from light aircraft to Concorde and determine their height, speed and direction. This is no easy task since you have to communicate with up to twenty aircraft at once. You also face restrictions in harder levels of the game on airspace, spacing of landings, emergency traffic and even the ominous ADDITIONAL problem.

The game can be speeded up or slowed down to suit your skill, but it is always hectic. There is a handy readout to show you your progress and if you're really under pressure a pause mode is available. Shame you can't do that on the real thing!